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Originally Posted by bill190
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Amazingly with my 12 ft. mesh dish, a tree can be blocking almost half the view and I can still get a sat. ....
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One thing I learned recently about that situation where half your view of one sat is blocked. Try to avoid using these sats for aligning your dish, because strange things can happen when only say the upper half of your dish is getting reception. I was having problems once with reception on my true south sat. Since I was fairly certain I was tracking the arc well, I tried peaking the position and orientation of my feedhorn on such a sat, and found that the best reception was when the feedhorn was tilted by about 15 degrees, which obviously isn't right. So then I got behind the dish, and looked and noticed that only the top half of the dish could actually see the sat. I cut down 3 trees to improve the view of that sat, and now the feed peaks when
aiming at the center of the dish.